We’re evaluating whether it’s viable to grow enough forests to build buildings using timber.
It’s great news that our project with Landsec and Easi-Space – the world’s first major commercial development designed and built using the Platforms approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA) – has been chosen and funded as one of the ‘.demonstrator projects’.
that will prove how innovation can transform construction..This is a landmark moment.But it is also the latest chapter in a long story of Government-led collaborations with private sector clients and a new kind of supply chain, resulting in real progress and real, tangible outcomes, which benefit both private and public sectors..
It is this kind of sustained, intelligent and joined-up collaborative approach that will bring about sector-wide positive change.Government should be applauded for this consistent direction of travel, and it’s worth recounting the linked pieces of work that predate this latest announcement..
The development of Platforms started back in 2016, when the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) appointed us to develop a new type of prison, focused on rehabilitative outcomes for prisoners.
One aspect of the project was to maximise the use of DfMA and set a new benchmark for public sector adoption.The design process needs to remain integrated.
This iteration is a part of ensuring the design is and remains integrated.Although different parties become engaged with design and delivery, it is the integration of the design which leads to the required outcomes.
There is little value in ten high-quality design packages if they do not interface and deliver efficiency in construction and effectiveness in operation.The integrated team need to be much more proactive and collaborative than design-coordination, which is a lagging process, detecting and correcting clashes.
(Editor: Basic Swimwear)